latest hammer price
Auction lots
10
Houses
1
Last sold
236 days ago
Bell’s 12 Year Old 1L is a collectable Scotch whisky from Bell’s aged 12 years. Based on 10 recorded auction lots across 4 months of trading data, the current median hammer price is £39, with the most recent sale at £35. Over the trading window, prices have ranged from £35 (low) to £45 (high). Accounting for lot-to-lot variation, a realistic valuation range for Bell’s 12 Year Old 1L is £32–£38 (±8% around the latest sale).
Bell’s is a whisky distillery. Bell’s 12 Year Old 1L is an age-stated bottling at 12 years old.
Non-standard format
Bottled in a 1000ml format rather than the standard 700ml, which sets it apart from the regular run.
These are scarcity and demand signals drawn from the bottle's own attributes — they describe the bottle, not a prediction of future price. Not investment advice.
Latest sale
£35
24-month median
£39
24-month high
£45
24-month low
£35
Estimated value · likely range
£32–£38 ±8%
Auction hammers swing lot to lot with condition, fill level and timing. Treat this band — not a single figure — as the bottle's value.
Rare at auctiononly a handful of lots a year
Seen at auction
6 lots
Cadence
≈ every 61 days
Trend
▲ 50% vs prior year
Houses
1
Activity rank
top 14% of tracked bottles
Last seen
236 days ago
Across the auction houses wsky1 tracks.
| Month | Median | Lots |
|---|---|---|
| January 2026 | £35 | 2 |
| September 2025 | £38 | 4 |
| June 2025 | £40 | 2 |
| March 2025 | £45 | 2 |
Bell’s 12 Year Old 1L appeared in 6 auction lots over the last 12 months across the auction houses wsky1 tracks — rare at auction (only a handful of lots a year). That is up 50% on the previous year. That puts it in the top 14% by auction activity among the 29,926 bottles wsky1 tracks — most collectable bottles hammer only a handful of times a year.
The latest hammer price for Bell’s 12 Year Old 1L at auction is £35. Across the most recent 24 months of auction data, the median hammer price is £39, with a high of £45 and a low of £35. All prices are in GBP and exclude buyer's premium. Data is aggregated from major auction houses including Scotch Whisky Auctions, Whisky Auctioneer, and Bonhams.
wsky1 currently has fewer than 12 months of auction data for Bell’s 12 Year Old 1L, so a year-on-year trend is not yet computed. Recent hammer prices range from £35 to £45 (median £39).
Bell’s 12 Year Old 1L regularly appears at major Scotch whisky auction houses including Scotch Whisky Auctions (Scotland), Whisky Auctioneer (Scotland), Just Whisky, Whisky Hammer, and Bonhams. The current median hammer price is £39 (excluding buyer's premium). At most major houses, buyer's premium adds 24–28% on top of hammer for the buyer; sellers typically receive the hammer price minus a sales commission of 5–15%.
Bell’s 12 Year Old 1L has appeared in 10 recorded auction lots in our database, with a current median hammer price of £39. wsky1 provides hammer-price data for informational purposes only — not investment advice.
wsky1 ingests public auction results from major auction houses (via direct scraping of Scotch Whisky Auctions, Whisky Auctioneer, Bonhams, and Whisky Hammer, plus aggregated data from WhiskyHunter). For each bottle, we group hammer prices by year-month and compute the median price per month. The figures shown — latest £35, 24-month median £39 — are derived from this monthly-median methodology. All prices are hammer prices in GBP, excluding buyer's premium.
No. All prices on wsky1 are hammer prices only. Buyer's premium at major Scotch whisky auction houses currently runs at 24–28% on top of the hammer price. A bottle of Bell’s 12 Year Old 1L that hammers at £35 would cost the buyer approximately £44 all-in including buyer's premium.
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